List of test #1 items

There are 25 items on the first test.

1. labeling theory (ES, 192)
2. deviance (ES, 191)
3. stigma (ES, 192)
4. total institution (ES, 142)
5. secondary deviance (ES, 192)
6. outsiders (ISR, 94)
7. norms (ES, 65)
8. values (ES, 60)
9. sign-vehicles (ISR, 64)
10. impression management (ES, 171)
11. status-power (ES, 124)--aka 'prestige'
12. A nation’s commitment to spread its influence and exploit other nations for their resources by use of force, military or otherwise, is called imperialism.
13. The ability to see relationships between individual experiences and larger social structures is the sociological imagination.
14. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government seeks to regulate all aspects of people’s public and private lives.
15. The theory that social arrangements typically benefit some groups at the expense of others is called conflict theory.
16. W.I. Thomas said “If a person defines a situation as real,it becomes real in its consequences.”
17. Marxist theorists argue that social relations during any period of history depend on who controls the primary means of production in that particular society.
18. Sociologists conducting research may formulate a hypothesis, which is a statement of the relationship between two or more variables.
19. Ethnocentrism is the tendency to judge other cultures by the standards of one’s own society.
20. Sociologists call the individual person’s ability to exercise self-determination in their own lives agency.
21. C. Wright Mills suggested that the U.S. is dominated by a small, self-interested group of wealthy individuals called the “Power Elite”
22. Sociologists call the practice of trying to hold the oppressed responsible for their oppression “blaming the victim”.
23. Sociologists obtain their knowledge of human behavior through research, which is the process of systematically collecting information for the purpose of testing an existing theory or generating a new one.
24. hidden curriculum (ES, 139)
25.  rites of passage (ES, 143)